PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Sociology in Sweden

This postdoctoral position is based at Linköping University within Tema Miljöförändring , part of the Department of Thematic Studies. The role is embedded in the Formas-funded research project Democratic Innovations for Climate Transformation (2027–2029) , which examines how climate citizens’ assemblies and related democratic processes may contribute to broader system change. The project brings together scholars from Linköping University and the Stockholm Resilience Centre to carry out a systema...

The Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg is offering a postdoctoral position in the project “Bridging Injustice Gaps: Peace Enhancement in the Aftermath of Conflict Engagement” (BIG PEACE) . The project is situated in a collaborative research environment that brings together scholars working on political science, conflict, justice, and democracy. BIG PEACE examines how transitional justice may contribute to reconciliation after conflict. The project focuses on how just...

This postdoctoral project examines how generative artificial intelligence and autonomous systems are reshaping professional knowledge in the medical profession . The research is centered on the ways AI is changing physicians’ expert judgment, discretion, accountability, autonomy, and professional legitimacy, with a particular focus on how medical knowledge is increasingly encoded, stored, and processed by algorithmic systems. The project asks how AI affects doctors’ work processes in both routin...

The Environmental Change division (tema Miljöförändring) at the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University is recruiting a two-year postdoctoral researcher to work on democratic innovations and climate transformation. The postdoc will join the Formas-funded project Democratic Innovations for Climate Transformation (2027–2029) , which brings together research on climate citizens’ assemblies and related deliberative processes. The project is designed as a systematic, interdisciplinary ...

Linköping University is recruiting a doctoral student in Technology and Social Change to study how socio-technical systems evolve as biogas becomes valued for multiple, potentially competing functions beyond its established role as an energy technology. The PhD project will focus on the Swedish biogas sector and examine how multifunctionality shapes socio-technical configurations, policy and institutional relations, and governance processes. The research will explore how interests and values are...

The Department of Social Work at the University of Gothenburg is offering a doctoral position in social work within one of the Nordic region’s largest and most established research and education environments in the field. The department is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences and brings together research and education at undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels. Its research focuses on understanding people in vulnerable social situations, social interventions, social policy measures, and b...

University College of Gävle is offering a doctoral position in occupational health science within the Department of Occupational Health, Psychology and Sports Science. The doctoral student will be admitted to the research subject and degree-awarding area of Health-Promoting Working Life , with a research environment that also includes doctoral students in care science, industrial economics, and social work. The project, Generative AI in knowledge work: consequences for work environment, health a...

Linnaeus University is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a sociology project on how artificial intelligence and autonomous systems are reshaping professional knowledge in the medical profession. The project focuses on physicians and the transformation of medical expertise, professional judgment, autonomy, ethics, accountability and responsibility as clinical knowledge becomes increasingly codified, stored and processed by AI. It will investigate how AI affects routine work as well as comp...

MINARET is recruiting 15 fully funded PhD researchers through an MSCA Doctoral Network coordinated by Lund University and involving 11 leading universities across Europe. The network examines the sociology of post-imperial Islamic legal cultures and the relationships between law, religion, governance, constitutionalism, democratisation and social change. Projects address Muslim-majority societies shaped by imperial legacies and contemporary political transformations, with a geographic focus span...